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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 164 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 133 kt against a target of 164 kt, running 31 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 164 kt.
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final so speed is back to 133 kt before the gate, not after it.
What happened: Speed control was already loose at the stabilisation gate, and this flight crossed the threshold at 145 kt against a target of 133 kt, 12 kt fast. Carrying excess speed into the gate like this usually carries straight through to a fast threshold crossing.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 133 kt by the gate and held to 133 kt at the threshold.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 500 ft gate: speed 19 kt FAST on the reference speed of 133 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,343 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 409 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 27R at EDDV Hannover Airport in 5 minutes, covering 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 27R, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 1,319 m, representing 41 % of the runway, and achieved a liftoff speed of 141 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 23 °C, wind 2 kt from 186 °, with a cross-wind component of 2 kt and no head-wind.
The initial en-route climb commenced overhead EDDV Hannover, ascending from 1,117 ft asl to 34,009 ft asl, an increase of 32,892 ft in 20 minutes while covering 117 nm.
The first cruise segment began 1 mile east of Wijster in the Netherlands, lasting 18 minutes and covering 119 nm.
A second climb started 53 miles west of De Koog, raising altitude from 34,077 ft asl to 36,006 ft asl, an increase of 1,929 ft in 3 minutes over a distance of 23 nm.
The subsequent cruise phase originated 68 miles north-east of Happisburgh, England, persisting for 25 minutes and spanning 165 nm.
Descent began overhead Whitburn, South Tyneside, with the aircraft descending from 35,494 ft asl to 1,457 ft asl, a loss of 34,036 ft in 20 minutes while covering 100 nm.
For the final approach to runway 24 at EGPH Edinburgh Airport, the aircraft approached from the north-east on a heading of 239.0 °, at 4 nm and 1,348 ft agl.
Landing on runway 24, which is 2,343 m long, the threshold speed was slightly above target at 145 kt. Touchdown occurred at 412 m down the runway with a speed of 134 kt, a vertical rate of minus 107 fpm, and a lateral deviation of 3.6 m from the centreline. Local conditions were 13 °C with wind 12 kt from 250 °, a cross-wind of 2 kt and a head-wind of 12 kt. Total landing distance was 1,198 m, representing 51 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking stand in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 532 nm, taking 97 and used 4,252 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320ceo, scored 98.8%, made its final approach to runway 24 at EGPH Edinburgh Airport from the north-east, tracking a heading of 239.0° at 4 nm and 1,348 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits, and the local weather was 13 °C with wind 12 kt from 250°, including a 2 kt crosswind component and a 12 kt headwind.
At threshold the height was good and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 145 kt. The flare proceeded without issue, setting up for touchdown.
Touchdown occurred 412 m down the runway, with a speed of 134 kt that was a little fast and a smooth vertical rate of minus 107 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.6 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance was 1,198 m, representing 51 % of the 2,343 m runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good, completing the landing within the remaining runway length.
Fine-tune speed control to achieve the target threshold speed and reduce the touchdown speed, and apply minor corrections to centreline alignment to eliminate the 3.6 m offset. Maintaining these adjustments will help preserve the high overall score.
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